Forum: Oil refiners do not need Keystone pipeline

The Keystone XL petroleum pipeline would only facilitate the abominable assault and battery on our planet represented by the mining of the “tar sands” near Fort McMurray, Alberta.

The information I have seen indicates an increase in carbon emissions of “at least” 17 percent when compared to “conventional” oil production. Many responsible scientists say it is actually two to three times that.

It is not in our country’s (or the world’s) interest to enlarge this open injury of Earth by providing a “straight” shot to the Gulf of Mexico. The “First Nations” of Canada are actively fighting an attempt to ram another pipeline through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific. We need to do what we can to shut down this uneconomical operation, not encourage it.

Does anyone realize that the “Flanagan South” crude oil pipeline — under construction right now through western Illinois — is the same size (36-inch diameter) as Keystone, being built by the same company, with the same destination (Cushing, Okla.)? It will carry “tar sands” oil. The oil refiners do not need Keystone.